XNA:
Can't answer your first question but there are options to number two. The easy and free way is to option click and drag the folder to the new destination. You can work on each PT session separately without altering the original or vice versa. The other way is to use Carbon Copy Cloner to do the backups. You can set it up different ways - to do the job manually or to do it on a regular timed bases. Plus having CCC will also make doing system backups easier - you DO make regular system backups right
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